Billy Elliot (RHC)

William "Billy" Elliot (1964-28 September 1995) was a leader of the Red Hand Commando during The Troubles. He was murdered by the RHC in 1995 after he murdered an epileptic Protestant woman, having believed that she was a Catholic Royal Ulster Constabulary spy.

Biography
Billy Elliot was born in Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland in 1964 to a family of Ulster Protestants. Elliot rose in the ranks of the Ulster unionist Red Hand Commando to become its second-in-command, and he became the commander of its South Belfast brigade. On 6 April 1994, Elliot and several other RHC members attended a rave party at the Bad Bet bandhall on Meridi Street, where a local loyalist flute band was playing. Elliot conversed with an epileptic Protestant woman, the 31-year-old Margaret Wright, and Wright asked certain questions that made Elliot believe that she was an Irish Catholic and an informant for the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Elliot had her taken away for a beating and torture session that ended with her execution, and Elliot was unaware of the fact that she was an innocent Protestant. The Ulster Volunteer Force outlawed Elliot, and he was shot dead by RHC gunmen as he left his friend's house in Primacy Park, Bangor, County Down on 28 September 1995.